Breakfast after the Dawn Eucharist on Easter Sunday
Help Prepare the Churchyard for Easter
THE ARTS CAFÉ
COUNTING YOUR BLESSINGS: Lent 2009
Donations for Easter Flowers
RADIO 4 Morning Service
COOKHAM FESTIVAL
Animal Magic!
Fred Walker’s Cookham
Diary This Week
Electoral Roll
Sunday 5th April – 18.30
Holy Trinity Ladies’ Group
Special Offer
Breakfast after the Dawn Eucharist on Easter Sunday
If you would like to have breakfast after the Dawn Eucharist on Easter Sunday, please sign a slip, which will be in your church, and return this to a church warden no later than 5 April.
Help Prepare the Churchyard for Easter
In 2 weeks we shall celebrate the glory of Easter. Please help to ensure that our churchyard contributes to that glory. There will be a working party on Saturday 4th April, refreshments provided, when many hands will be required to weed and edge trim. Alternatively you can come when it is personally more convenient. Ivy needs stripping from the walls and in particular the large tomb on the left of the porch needs attention. Please contact me if you have any problems/queries. Oh and please bring a trowel, secateurs etc. Jill Cawthorne
THE ARTS CAFÉ
Invite you to join them on Friday 3rd April for an entertaining evening led by the comedy sketch group, FOUR MONKS AND A NUN at 8.15pm (doors open at 7.30pm - so come early to socialise with other Arts Café fans) Tickets: £5 - In advance from St Andrew's bookshop or Reserve by phone - 01628 784960 or ON THE DOOR.
The Arts Café is located in the Wesley Hall at High Street Methodist Church, Maidenhead, SL6 1EF.
COUNTING YOUR BLESSINGS: Lent 2009
This Lent, make your response count through the money you give, through the prayers you offer and through the actions you take.
March 29 – Sunday
Someone born today in the UK could expect to live to the age of 79, while someone born today in Angola could only expect to live to 41. Give 1p for every year of your life
March 30 – Monday
£5 could provide a loan to a street child in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to enable them to set up a small business, such as shining shoes. Give 50p if you are currently paying back loans.
March 31 – Tuesday
In Senegal, each person is responsible for emitting 0.4 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. In the UK the figure is 9.2 tonnes. Yet people in Senegal are suffering from desertification as a result of climate change. Give 25p for each item around the home currently on standby.
April 1 – Wednesday
£4 could pay for a day’s food for a family in Bangladesh, made homeless by floods, until they can re-establish their lives. If you buy a meal out today, £4 in thanks that you have that choice.
April 2 – Thursday
Today is International Children’s Book Day. 93 million children of primary-school age are not in school. Give 30p for every book you pick up today
April 3 – Friday
As your countdown to Easter is nearing its end, there are only 241 days left in the countdown to the Copenhagen climate change negotiations. Order campaign action cards today.
April 4 – Saturday
300,000 people will be collecting door to door for Christian Aid Week next month. Give 5p for every step they would need to make from the pavement to your front door.
Donations for Easter Flowers
Would you like to make a donation towards our display of floral arrangements to celebrate Easter? I will be outside church after the morning and some of the evening services over the next few Sundays. Many thanks for your support! Bernadette Clark
RADIO 4 Morning Service
We are delighted to have been asked to host the radio 4 Morning Service at Holy Trinity on Sunday 26th April. The service is broadcast live at 0810hrs but the congrega-tion has to be seated in church by 0745hrs for a final rehearsal (the choir and readers will have rehearsed on Saturday afternoon as well). Part of the reason for having the service at Holy Trinity is because it is 50 years since Stanley Spencer died and our service will include three reflections on his work led by Canon David Winter. All are welcome to share in this service.
COOKHAM FESTIVAL
Two exhibitions will be held at the Holy Trinity Parish Centre. Open daily throughout the Festival from 2.00-4.30pm. Admission Free to the exhibitions
Animal Magic!
A rare opportunity to see a large number of original paintings by the acclaimed Cookham Dean painter, Ralph Thompson, friend of Stanley Spencer and illustrator of books by Gerald Durell. Ralph also appeared on a series of BBC television programmes demonstrating his remarkable skills as a painter of animals. Come to the talk about Ralph Thompson on Friday 1st May.
Fred Walker’s Cookham
The exhibition will tell the story of his life and display reproductions of his etchings, watercolours and oils. The artist Frederick Walker (1840-75) was commonly known as “Fred”. He painted many scenes around Cookham and the Thames including a goose girl in Cookham High Street, bathers at Odney, Marlow Ferry, a rainy day in Bisham and almshouses in Bray. Come to the talk about Fred Walker on Monday 27th April. Tickets for the Talks are available from the Stationery Depot, Cookham Rise, and Price £3.50Both talks are at the Parish Centre at 3.00pm
Diary This Week
Tuesday 31 March
11.15 Trinity Nippers – HTC
13.00 Cookham Dean Easter
Service Rehearsal – SJB
17.00 HTC Standing Cttee at the Vicarage
18.45 Girls Choir Practice
19.45 Men’s Choir Practice
20.00 Bell Ringers Practice.
Wednesday 1 April
10.00 Holy Communion – SJB
11.00 HT School Easter Service –HTC
13.30 Holy Communion at Elizabeth House
18.00 Youngsters Confirmation Class at Parish Centre
20.00 Adult Confirmation Class at the Vicarage
Thursday 2 April
07.30 Holy Communion – HTC
13.30 Cookham Dean Easter
Service at SJB
18.00 Wedding Rehearsal SJB
Friday 3 April
17.15 Boys Choir Practice
Saturday 4 April
14.00 Wedding - SJB
Electoral Roll
The Electoral Roll for Holy Trinity Cookham is to be amended in time for the annual APCM on 22nd April 2009. If anyone wishes to have their name added they should complete an application form or speak to Colin Jackson (colincaunter@aol.com). If you are already on the Electoral Roll you need to do nothing. Colin Jackson
Sunday 5th April – 18.30
Celebrating Palm Sunday. A service of hymns, readings, anthems and reflection. Music led, for the first time at an evening service, by our Girls' Choir.
Holy Trinity Ladies’ Group
our next meeting will be on Thursday 2nd April at 8.00 p.m. in the Parish Centre. Hugh Granger will be our Speaker and his subject 'I'm not really old, it's just these trousers'. It is described as; an amusing look at the ageing process, so if it is a laugh you need this might just be the time and place for it!! Visitors are always welcome.
Special Offer
Large 3 bedroom flat in the Parish centre is still to let, now available at a reduced rental of £950pm. Do you know anyone who might be interested? If so contacts Terry Jackson (Verger).
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